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The Rode NT1 5th Generation is one of the best studio condenser microphones available today, ideal for both professionals and enthusiasts. Known for its impeccable clarity and low self-noise, the NT1 offers outstanding audio quality, making it perfect for vocal recording, podcasting, and music production. With both XLR and USB outputs, this microphone provides flexibility for different setups, whether you're in a professional studio or recording at home.
One of the standout features of the NT1 is its ability to capture every detail with precision, thanks to its large diaphragm. The microphone's low noise floor, combined with its ability to handle high sound pressure levels, ensures that it delivers a clean, accurate recording, free from distortion.
The NT1 also comes with a shock mount and pop filter, which significantly reduces handling noise and plosives, making it ideal for vocal recording. The combination of these features, along with its sleek black design, makes the Rode NT1 5th Gen a top choice for any recording setup.
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00:00So today we're going to check out the NT1 fifth generation black and we're going to go ahead and
00:04unbox this and completely showcase this how it looks, how it sounds, how everything. I am really
00:10excited because personally I have a lot of dynamic microphones and for me to have a nice large
00:15diagram condenser microphone is going to be something pretty new for me. So I've always
00:20wanted to see how something like this works. I'm personally a YouTuber so I actually do a lot of
00:24voiceover work with my job, with my channels and a lot of times I don't appear on him. I just
00:29you just hear my voice and so for me having that audio quality and having it at the utmost quality
00:35is absolutely important and key for me. So we'll start off here. Let's go ahead and showcase. So
00:41the box comes really hefty as you guys can see. This personally is already just a shock mount and
00:47filter which I have to say I mean wow this is like jam-packed full of stuff already and I'm just
00:54really impressed. So you get a really beefy shock mount as you guys can see here. I mean this thing
00:59is it's heavy. It is heavy which it's all metal construction here right here. I think there is
01:06like you have the rope right here but all this right here is metal. This right here is I think
01:11it's is it plastic? No it's all metal. Everything is for the metal. This right here is definitely
01:14plastic but the rest of this is is all metal and as you guys can see you can definitely like tailor
01:22make this to put that microphone where you need it to go. This also comes with what looks like a really
01:27really long very thick USB-C cable and I'm guessing this is for when you would use the
01:34USB-C portion of this and you would use that 32-bit flow and you would plug this in directly into your
01:40computer. We'll use XLR and we'll use both the USB-C today and then we have what is the pop filter
01:46right here which is really awesome. So definitely a quality pop filter. You can feel it. It's got this
01:52like mesh feel right here and it feels really good. All right then we have another box right here and
01:57I'm not sure what's in this box here. It looks like oh you get maybe what would would this be almost
02:03looks like a little too small for the microphone but all that came in this box is this right here so
02:07you can go ahead and just put more items. So there you go. Opening up this red box now we have what is
02:13going to be the XLR cable which I have to say wow this is an absolutely quality XLR cable very much a big
02:22fan. Wow man this is incredible that you get something like this in this package deal here
02:29with this microphone. That's really that's really awesome. Finally though let's go ahead now and open
02:34up this microphone. This is obviously the star of the show and there it is and immediately you can
02:42feel all metal design. The grill here feels really good. You have what if you look right inside you
02:49have the XLR then you have the USB-C and it is just really really nice. There's no switches from what I
02:57can see and it does say it's made in Australia which is really good and there you go. One thing that I've
03:03heard that you can't listen back on these one for one because it doesn't have like that headphone jack but
03:09overall though I mean this is a quality design. It just it looks gorgeous. I love it. It's beautiful like
03:17the the grill right here is really solid solidly constructed. The metal all body design is really
03:24really well done. You can tell you can probably drop this quite a bit and you'll be okay and that's
03:29something that you know when you're you are looking at this point compared to other microphones you want
03:34to make sure that that's uh that's definitely quality. Now another thing I want to point out
03:38is that there's actually like these little ridges right here as you guys can see right there and you
03:43can actually just go ahead and just like screw it on right here and that really ensures that it's
03:50going to stay on there which I really really really really really like. So that's uh that's something
03:55that I just didn't see coming with this. They really kind of thought of everything here which is
03:59really really cool and then you would just go ahead and put in the pop filter as well. So
04:04just overall really impressed. Now we'll go ahead and do some audio samples but I just have I just
04:08wanted to kind of point out how this thing is just completely intuitive in every way possible and uh
04:14it's just really impressive. Finally if you're wondering how the pop filter works I was able to
04:17figure that out pretty quickly. Uh you simply just put it in this this little apparatus down here
04:23and you you go ahead and you put that in and then this thing will just tighten up. So you just want to
04:27make sure that when you're uh using the microphone that you're talking into the front end of it but
04:31I mean for the most part at that point it'll be very like uh it'll it'll be very intuitive. You
04:36would just lock this in place right here to keep the pop filter in in place and then you would just
04:41lock this in to keep this portion in place as well. So you could really customize it. So me personally
04:47more than likely what I'm going to do is I'm going to have it pretty close to the microphone because I
04:50like to talk pretty pretty up on the microphone. So um really cool innovative designs as I keep
04:56mentioning and just a big fan. All right so now we're going to do a test of what this sounds in
04:59a pretty well-treated room. I'm going to go ahead and read off what I would usually do for my YouTube
05:04channel so you guys get an idea of how that looks and we'll just go ahead and start now and we'll
05:08compare it to other microphones that are dynamic because that's all I have. So the holidays are now
05:13in full swing and we have the full slate of amazing November Xbox Game Pass games that we'll cover in
05:17this video and guys it's an impressive lineup. My name is Sonny here at Xbox Central and we kick this off
05:23with games releasing today starting with Jacant which might be one of the more relaxing yet at
05:27the same time adventurous games releasing as a day one game pass title. This is an action puzzle
05:32climbing game that takes you on a journey up a massive mountain and while this game is at its
05:36core about climbing these massive obstacles guys there's a lot more to this. As you adventure
05:40through the game you start to uncover mysteries of the past from different civilizations with their
05:44own traditions and cultures and you'll discover their hidden secrets along the way. So the holidays are
05:49out in full swing and we have the full slate of amazing November Xbox Game Pass games that we'll
05:53cover in this video and it's an impressive lineup. My name is Sonny here at Xbox Central and we kick
05:58this off with games releasing today starting with Jacant which might be one of the more relaxing yet at
06:04the same time adventurous game releasing as a day one game pass title. This is an action puzzle
06:09climbing game that takes you on a journey up a massive mountain and while at its core this game is
06:13about climbing these massive obstacles there's a lot more to this. As you adventure through the game you
06:18really start to uncover the mysteries of the past things from different past civilizations with
06:23their own traditions and cultures and you'll discover their hidden secrets along the way.
06:27So the holidays are now in full swing and we have the full slate of amazing November Xbox Game Pass
06:32games that we'll cover in this video and guys it's an impressive lineup. My name is Sonny here at
06:37Xbox Central and we kick this off with games releasing today starting with Jacant which might be one of the
06:42more relaxing yet at the same time adventurous games releasing as a day one game pass title. This is an
06:47action puzzle climbing game that takes you on a journey up a massive mountain and while this game
06:51at its core is about climbing these massive obstacles there's a lot more to this. As you
06:56adventure through the game you start to uncover mysteries from the past from different civilizations
07:00with their own traditions and cultures and you'll discover their hidden secrets along the way.
07:05Alright so this is just me now with the USB plugged into the computer. So the holidays are now in full
07:10swing and we have the full slate of amazing November Xbox Game Pass games that we'll cover in this video
07:14and guys it's an impressive lineup. My name is Sonny here at Xbox Central and we kick this off with
07:19games releasing today starting with Jacant which might be one of the more relaxing yet at the same
07:24time adventurous games releasing as a day one game pass title. This is an action puzzle climbing game
07:29that takes you on a journey up a massive mountain and while this game is at its core about climbing
07:33these massive obstacles there's a lot more to this. So I've now gotten to hear back everything I've
07:39gotten to put this through its paces I've gotten to really like gain the grasp of this microphone and
07:45for me to my ears it absolutely sounds better than my Shure SM7B and my RE20. Those of course are
07:52dynamic microphones and naturally they're just going to give off a different sound because this is a
07:56condenser and that's just naturally how it's going to go. For me I've used dynamic microphones because
08:01of my loud environments. Now in these days I don't have as loud as environments so that's why something
08:07like this for me really works. Ultimately though with my me being my treated room it just sounds
08:12really incredible. It sounds amazing. One thing that really surprised me is when I did USB I didn't
08:17really get to there's no like you can't really you can mess a little bit with the EQ with the Rode
08:21Connect app but I was completely neutral. Everything was completely neutral and one thing I'll definitely
08:27notice is that it sounded very much similar. It's it's you lose a little bit of quality in my opinion
08:33versus the you know the XLR portion of this but it sounds really good considering that everything
08:39all the internals are in here all the processing is done inside this microphone everything is just
08:44done inside this microphone is really really impressive. So for someone like me who travels a
08:48lot that's something that I definitely will wait as you know if I'm going to end up keeping this
08:53microphone because I don't want to always bring an audio interface with me and so when all I need to
08:58do is just plug in a USB cable that really works really well. So overall very impressed I mean you
09:04can hear all the sound differences between the different ones. One thing I did notice just a
09:08random note I use different headphones and you can definitely get like the color that you the
09:13coloring of what you're hearing will definitely sound different than headphones but ultimately I did
09:17come out thinking you know this sounded the very best out of all my other microphones and all the
09:22other microphones were treated the same way in terms of you know the space and everything. So
09:26ultimately do I recommend the Rode NT1 5th generation for all your needs absolutely you're
09:31getting an absolute quality design the audio is top notch then you get the 32-bit float which
09:37is an incredible piece of tech that's just basically you can let the audio go any way you want you can
09:43let it go really loud you can talk really low and then you can boost everything in post or you can
09:47lower the volume in post you know so that's something that if you if you're a singer like I can't see
09:52for my use case 32-bit float being very useful but for a singer or anything along those lines or if
09:58you're like a streamer and you just scream out of top of your lungs I can see that being really good
10:02so this is kind of like a workhorse that does everything it sounds great the quality is amazing
10:07you get a lot of accessories I'm not sure that there's a better set of microphone that you could
10:14buy that gives you everything that you want in the package that this microphone does it gives you
10:18everything it gives you a great shock mount it gives you a great pop filter it gives you all the
10:24connections you need all the USB connections like everything it's just amazing and this by far is one
10:30of the best things that you can get on the market for this point compared to other microphones so if
10:35you're looking for the Rode NT1 5th generation it absolutely 100% has my recommendation
10:40you
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